SAI: Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later – Moderated by Manan Ahmed

Date: Friday – Saturday, December 9-10

Time: 8:30am (December 9) – 12:45pm (December 10)

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DAY ONE: Friday, December 9

8:30am – 8:45am:  Introduction by Katherine Ewing (Religion; Director of South Asia Institute, Columbia)

8:45am-10:45am: Roundtable One:  Historical Legacies and Re-imaginings

Moderator: Manan Ahmed (History, Columbia)

Irfan Habib (Prof. Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University)

Peter van der Veer (University Professor, Utrecht University; Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity)

Audrey Truschke (History, Rutgers at Newark)

David Ludden (History, NYU)

Christine Marrewa-Karwoski (MESAAS, Columbia)

Anand Patwardhan (Filmmaker)

11:15am-12:45pm: Roundtable Two:  Reaching Publics: Technologies of Representation and Performance

Moderator: Isabel Huacuja Alonso (MESAAS, Columbia)

Dheepa Sundaram (Religious Studies, Colorado at Boulder)

Rohit Chopra: (Communication, Santa Clara Univ.)  

Arvind Rajagopal  (Media Studies, NYU)

Jaclyn Michael (Religion, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga)

 

DAY TWO: Saturday, December 10

8:30am-10:00am: Roundtable Three: Tracing Gender, Caste, and Minority Status

Moderator: Zehra Mehdi (Doctoral candidate, Religion, Columbia)

Kancha Ilaiah Shepard  (Past Director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Maulana Azad National Urdu University)

Tanika Sarkar (Emeritus Prof., History, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Khalid Anis Ansari (Associate Prof. of Sociology, Azim Premji University)

Deepak Mehta (Sociology, Ashoka University)

10:30am-12pm:  Roundtable Four: Forging Religion, Secularism and the Nation within India and Beyond

Moderator: to be announced

Sarover Zaidi (Assoc. Prof., Jindal School of Architecture)

Hilal Ahmed (Assoc. Prof., Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)

Irfan Ahmad (Anthropology-Sociology, Ibn Haldun University)

Thomas Blom Hansen (Anthropology, Stanford)

12:00pm-12:45pm: Concluding conversation with all roundtable presenters and organizers.